pacman —remove

Arch Linux package manager utility. See also: pacman. More information: https://manned.org/pacman.8.

• Remove a package and its dependencies:

sudo pacman --remove --recursive package

• Remove a package and both its dependencies and configuration files:

sudo pacman --remove --recursive --nosave package

• Remove a package without prompting:

sudo pacman --remove --noconfirm package

• Remove orphan packages (installed as dependencies but not required by any package):

sudo pacman --remove --recursive --nosave $(pacman --query --unrequired --deps --quiet)

• Remove a package and all packages that depend on it:

sudo pacman --remove --cascade package

• List packages that would be affected (does not remove any packages):

pacman --remove --print package

• Display help:

pacman --remove --help